Vienna is the capital of which country?

“Vienna is the capital of which country?”—Vienna is the capital of Austria. It is Austria’s largest city and also functions as one of the country’s nine federal states, giving it an unusual city-state status.

Vienna sits in northeastern Austria on the Danube River, near the borders of Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Its history stretches back to the Roman settlement of Vindobona. Over many centuries it became the political center of the Habsburg monarchy and a major capital of the Austrian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The city is also famous for its cultural heritage. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and other major composers lived or worked there, helping earn Vienna the nickname “City of Music.” The city hosted the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815, where European powers reorganized the continent after the Napoleonic Wars. A common mix-up is confusing Austria with Australia; Vienna is in landlocked Central European Austria, not the country in Oceania.